To Understand is to Forgive

I believe it's a French saying and so Alan Blinder and his When the Music Stopped must be French. It's as if Tim Geithner wrote the book explaining why we had to tread lightly here and give support there as if no bad acts had been committed. The reason behind the Santulli rant that created the Tea Party was that the unforgivable was forgiven! Obama should have made Citibank into the poster child of the stupid calamitous favor seeking institution that it was in the first three months of his term! That he did not got him the derision of Wall Street and revolt on Main Street. A crisis like the Great Recession requires a little blood letting and needs a FDR (of all presidents for a libertarian to cite!) style lynching to set things right.